27/10/2026
“Chasing sobriety means surrendering to the process, becoming open to change….” 🍅💞🫐 🎨🏆
It’s holding steadfast to constructive principles while also learning to flow….
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“Back at the Baltimore station, Woody had talked about the circadian rhythm of detox—how the process follows a predictable, scientific pattern. A clock starts ticking from the last time you get high Woody explained to us, and a period of early recovery last between 18 and 24 months.
It takes time to push out the chemicals, to re-align your system…. It’s a biological process of healing, a cycle of ups and downs.
It follows a rhythm just like every other [living] thing in the whole universe— plants, the moon, the waves in the ocean.”
🌊 🫂 🌙
“Chasing sobriety means surrendering to the process, becoming open to change. It’s holding steadfast to constructive principles while also learning to just go with the flow.”
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“For many years, I believed I had to leave the rez to get clean, leaving behind the chaos and dysfunction. But that ended up not being true.
Sobriety isn’t about geography. It’s something that lives inside you.”
“By the time I was on my eight or ninth go-round with recovery, I recognized the patterns….”
🍅 🥕🫘
“Recovery unfolds in the on-between moments I learned.
It’s not an elaborate, festive banquet. It’s the steps one takes to produce it.
My job was to keep re-committing to sobriety with every tool and skill I’d developed over and over and over like a prep cook getting a restaurant kitchen ready each morning for the busy shifts ahead.”
🍲 🧄 🧅
“Each time I start future-tripping, each time I hear the addiction talking about how the world isn’t doing me right, isn’t meeting my needs, I return to cooking as a way to support my recovery,
chopping and browning onions, brewing a pot of tea,
watching the ingredients transform into something beautiful and delicious.”
🥦🫐🥭
“It’s overwhelming to feel things again.
It sometimes feels like the shame, regret, anger and sadness that come with sobriety [and with being human] might crush me. I often have to remind myself that there’s nothing wrong with me, that this is the unseen process of my trauma and hurt unraveling.”
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“I had learned from Woody that the last organ to detox is the brain….
Your liver cleans out, along with your intestines, your spleen and your heart, but the organ you most rely on to understand your reality takes the longest to recover.”
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“For too long I had regarded the idea of recovery from a comfortable distance, learning the lingo and the science but not surrendering to the process, to the mental and spiritual reorganization it demanded.”
“It had been the same way with love…. The same was true I saw now with my relationship to the concept of decolonization.
I first encountered the term in my 20s and my impression of it coincided with everything I was about at the time:
aggression, resisting authority, breaking the rules, lashing out against the system.
Back then the word conjured images of mass protestors out in the streets clashing with the outside forces hellbent on poisoning our land
stealing our water, harming our people.
It was romantic and violent.
In sobriety, a new dimension of decolonization was being revealed to me. One that involved un-learning the stupid young man s**t that had gotten me into mortal trouble, and learning to soften my heart.”
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“Viewing decolonization primarily as fist-in-the-air rebellion ignores the deep spiritual component of the work.
The initial rupture of genocide and land theft has led to decades of ensuing injustices and
all this historical trauma is a major factor in our people’s sky-high high rates of addiction and suicidality. Pushing society to reckon with and rectify this brutal legacy will always be slow-going, heartbreaking work.”
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“I had seen myself how activists and warriors burned hot and eventually flamed out.
A big part of decolonization is figuring out how to move through our everyday lives in a way that replaces division, consumption, turmoil and confusion with connection, creativity, stability and purpose.
The home front is just as important as the battlefield. It’s where we can alter our realities by caring for each other and building healthier, more resilient communities.”
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“Two decades of addiction and dependency had shown me that I was tough enough to survive shattering violence and loss.
But was I tough enough to be gentle?
Was I tough enough to be humble?
Was I tough enough to be loving and patient?
This would be the ultimate challenge, my version of the Wu-Tang’s 36th chamber. ”
🕯️🎙️❤️🔥
—Nephi Craig
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